The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-09-06
THE STATE RESTS.
The Evidence Against George
Hamilton All I'm.

Kansas City, Aug. 30;-The state reSteC
its case in the trial of George Hamilton fO
train wrecking at Wyapdotte yesterday
afternoon, and at the request of the attor
neys for the defense Judge Hindman al
| journed court until this morning in order
to give Governor johnson and Major
Warner time to consult and decide npor
the course to be pursued by them In pre-
senting the defendants side of the case,
Governor johnson stated TO a reporter thai
he expected to get through with the ex'
animation of witnesses by tomorrow even.
ing. One days time will suffice for the
arguments of counsel and the case will
probably 60 to the jury by Friday at the
very latest.
THE PROCEEDINGS.
The most important testimony given
yesterday was that OF General Manager r.
3. Drake of the Cincinnati, Jackson and
Mackinaw road, who was superintendent
OF the Missouri Pacific at the time of the
strike. He explained the cause of the hos
tility of the strikers toward Engineer De-
Witt and left clear inference that De-
Wits train was the one which the strikers
expected to wreck. He also told of the sus-
pension of business during the strike and
of the manner in which the strikers ran
| the company's yards and handled the COM
pany's property without authority or war
rant of law.
In substance Mr.. Drake who is now gen
eral manager of the Cincinnati, Jackson
and Mackinaw railroad, testified that in
April, 1886 he was superintendent of the
Missouri Pacific and located in Sedalia.
For three weeks during the strike the COM
pany were unable to run trains other than
passenger trains. The men who were on
the strike prevented the running of trains.
The witness knew Hamilton aud Lloyd.
Hamilton had been foreman of the night
car cleaning force. Lloyd was foreman of
the switching crew Leary was a switch
man. They all went out on the strike.
81 knew Hamilton was In charge of the
strike. ] dealt with him as the represent
alive of the railroads and Hamilton repre-
sented the strikers Whenever We wanted
to deal with the knights every body directed
us 10 Hamilton. Our first business was on
Sunday the first week of the strike. saw
the executive comm lttee, among whom
were Hamilton, Lloyd, Keys and others.
| saw them about four times during The
strike in their hall, 1919 Sixth stseet That
charge of the engines, but refused 10 send
anyone TO take charge of the coaches.
Then We had to get permission from Ham
ilton and his committee to move two cars
of apples and oranges and the property
was our own, but We had to get an order
from Hamilton before we could handle it.
After we got the order We had TO take ii to
the yard committee of the strikers, who
honored Hamilton's orders. On one Occa-
sion. Floyd, in ramilton's presence, said
that the dirty coaches were good enough
for the passengers, and they wouldn't per-
NIT us to clean them or to put ice water In
them. As a consequence of this action OF
the committee, the cars ran in dirty con-
dition from this point. We had also made
an attempt to move the two cars of oranges
and apples before calling on the commit
tee, but the yard committee had prevented
us. subsequently we obtained an order
from Hamilton and were permitted to
move the cars. They didn't allow us any
switch engines at Kansas City. At all 9TH
er points We were permitted to have en-
gines to move passenger cars. Finally
Hamilton aud his committee told us We
could get an engine from Leavenworth for
that purpose"
''Did Hamilton own any Of these en-
gines?"
"No, sir. Neither did he own the cars of
oranges, nor did he mold any position in
the Missouri Pacific road which can give
him authority 10 supervise the disposition
of cars or engines of the road
"Why didn't you use the engines in the
round house,
"They had been disabled by the removal
of the throttle valves and levers. Be-
tween fifteen and twenty engines had been
disabled in that manner"
"Did you you know Mr.. Dewitt p
IL did He was an engineer on the
Missouri Pacific road. The state of feel
ing between Mr.. Dewitt and the striking
knights of Labor was very bitter. This
i'll feeling was caused by DeWitt's oppo-
sition to the strike and the fact that he
ran a train during the strike. De Witt was
4 member of the executive board OF the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and
very friendly toward the road. We we're
notified by Hamilton and his committe
when the strike had been declared of by
The Knights of Labor"
The court took a recess until o'clock
THE AFTERNOON SESSION.
AT the AFTERNOON session Willlam SOcoen
was recalled by the state. He said:
The evening prior to my arrest / was
at the St. james Hotel. Mr.. George Ham,
ilton, w. F. Rockwell, w. Keys, Arthur
Harold, Michael Heany and myself met
there in room "a. When he came In
George Hamilton said: Il think that man
Alfred is detective. want you to in
troduce me to him as Mr.. Davis. When
Mr.. Alfred came back Mr.. Hamilton was
introduced as Mr.. Davis. Hamilton asked
him for his credentials as knight OF labor.
He said his credentials were in his trunk
at the express Office"
On the cross-examination the witness
said Mr.. Alfred was detective.
Governor Charles johnson asked the
witness if he remembered remarkipg that
he would abandon the entire project az the